A lot has been happening on Catchment Care initiatives around the country. We've been working with local communities, environmental groups and local councils on projects that are making a big difference when it comes to protecting and enhancing New Zealand's waterways, wetlands and catchment zones. To keep you up-to-date with what's been going on, please see below.
Throughout 2011 and 2012 Catchment Care in association with Conversation Volunteers has been helping to restore the Waituna wetlands complex by riparian planting and pest removal. The Waituna wetland was one of the first sites in the world to be named "a wetland of international significance" under the RAMSAR Convention and is an important ...
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On Friday, March 9th, a determined group of twelve students from Hornby High School, taking part in the Foundation for Youth Development’s ‘Project K ’ programme, joined forces with Conservation Volunteers New Zealand and the Silverstream Reserve Advisory Group to help establish native plantings in the Reserve. The initiative i...
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Today Fonterra’s Catchment Care programme celebrates World Wetlands Day at Lake Ngaroto near Hamilton and Lake Waihola near Dunedin, New Zealand. The Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Every year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, ...
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The Catchment Care programme has had a successful two years working at more than 50 catchments across the country and improving over 1.5 million square metres of land to date.
For its third year Catchment Care has been has been refocused to ensure a greater impact on the ecological health of key national or regional catchments across New Zealand. ...
Two teams of volunteers marked International Volunteers Day yesterday by joining Fonterra’s Catchment Care to help enhance the native plant life in Waikato and Southland. Members of the public joined Fonterra staff at Lake Serpentine near Te Awamutu in Waikato and Waituna Awarua Wetlands near Invercargill in Southland. The passionate ...
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